podman-pause

podman-pause(1) General Commands Manual podman-pause(1)

NAME

   podman-pause - Pause one or more containers

SYNOPSIS

   podman pause [options] [container...]

   podman container pause [options] [container...]

DESCRIPTION

   Pauses all the processes in one or more containers.  You may use container IDs or names as input.

OPTIONS --all, -a

   Pause all running containers.

--cidfile=file

   Read container ID from the specified file and pause the container.  Can be specified multiple times.

--filter, -f=filter

   Filter  what  containers  pause.   Multiple filters can be given with multiple uses of the --filter flag.  Filters with the same key work inclusive with the only exception being label
   which is exclusive. Filters with different keys always work exclusive.

   Valid filters are listed below:

   ┌──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │ Filter   │ Description                                                     │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ id       │ [ID] Container's ID  (CID  prefix  match  by  default;  accepts │
   │          │ regex)                                                          │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ name     │ [Name] Container's name (accepts regex)                         │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ label    │ [Key] or [Key=Value] Label assigned to a container              │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ exited   │ [Int] Container's exit code                                     │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ status   │ [Status]  Container's  status:  'created',  'initialized', 'ex‐ │
   │          │ ited', 'paused', 'running', 'unknown'                           │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ ancestor │ [ImageName] Image or descendant used to create container        │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ before   │ [ID] or [Name] Containers created before this container         │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ since    │ [ID] or [Name] Containers created since this container          │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ volume   │ [VolumeName] or [MountpointDestination] Volume mounted in  con‐ │
   │          │ tainer                                                          │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ health   │ [Status] healthy or unhealthy                                   │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ pod      │ [Pod] name or full or partial ID of pod                         │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ network  │ [Network] name or full ID of network                            │
   ├──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │ until    │ [DateTime]  Containers  created  before  the  given duration or │
   │          │ time.                                                           │
   └──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

--latest, -l

   Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container.  Note: the last started container can be from other users of Podman on the host machine.   (This  option
   is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)

EXAMPLE

   Pause specified container:

   podman pause mywebserver

   Pause container by partial container ID:

   podman pause 860a4b23

   Pause all running containers:

   podman pause --all

   Pause container using ID specified in given files:

   podman pause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1
   podman pause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2

   Pause the latest container. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines):

   podman pause --latest